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CEP Couple : Shem and Melissa Melissa Heng (R) with husband Shem and children, Emma, 11, and Jonah, 9. Photos: Melissa Heng. We cannot fully understand the Good Friday event without considering it in the light of the Resurrection. Similarly, Lent cannot truly be lived out unless we see it as a time of preparation …

Observing Lent with our children Read More »

CEP Couple/s: Leo and Yunita, Jonathan and Marie   Love gives meaning to sacrifice. It gives a purpose to a seemingly mundane, simple, unnoticed task. Catherine Doherty, a Catholic social worker, and foundress of the Madonna House Apostolate, meditated on Christ’s hidden years, which we are called to imitate, just as surely as we are …

Motherhood: Sanctifying Family Life Read More »

CEP Couple/s: Winfrid and Kristina   We all dream and hope that we will find the right partner in life. Hollywood tells us that when we find our “perfect one” we then live “happily ever after”. The initial years of marriage are often termed the “honeymoon period”, where newly married couples revel in the love …

A WAKE-UP CALL THAT STRENGTHENED THEIR MARRIAGE AND THEIR LIVES Read More »

CEP Couple/s: Hidden for confidential reasons   When Joseph* and Samantha* first met through a mutual friend, love blossomed and after two years of dating, the couple married in 2012. Their belief that they needed only one another soon faded as the realities of married life began to take hold. They were soon to discover …

A Marriage Takes Three Read More »

CEP Couple/s: Hidden for confidential reasons   In our previous issue, we highlighted that nobody enters into a marriage able to manage it perfectly. Our model for marriage will have come, in most cases, from our parents. And our spouse may have a different frame of reference for what a marriage should be, due to …

Learning to Love Anew Read More »

CEP Couple/s: Clement and Sharon, Jason and Andrea   It was 11pm and the end of a stressful work day for Calvin and Elizabeth (their names have been changed to protect their identity). Most couples would be at home or out enjoying themselves. But for this couple, there was still work to be done. Driving …

LIVE THE PROMISE, EXPERIENCE THE JOY Read More »

CEP Couple/s: Bernard and Ying   While most of us are caught up with all the baking, decorating, shopping and feasting this season, some families out there and in our midst struggle to face the yuletide season without a dear one they have lost. Pause for a moment as we bring you a story of …

WHEN CHRISTMAS WILL NEVER BE THE SAME AGAIN Read More »